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Winter - Transformation Through Relationship
10 Lessons-
StartAn Overview of Winter (5 minute read)
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StartSection 1 — The Inner Relationship (5 minute read)
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StartSection 1 - Optional Further Exploration
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StartBridging Reflection — Turning Toward Others (2-minute read)
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StartSection 2 — From Drama to Connection (7 minute read)
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StartSection 2 - Optional Further Exploration
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StartBridging Reflection — Shifting Power in the Consulting Room (3 minute read)
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StartSection 3 - A Six-Step Consultation Framework
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StartSection 3 - Optional Further Exploration
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StartBridging Reflection — Turning Toward Spring (2-minute read)
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Winter - Four Seasons of Learning
Transformation through Relationship - Self-compassion, stillness, and change beneath the surface
Winter – Four Seasons of Learning
Transformation through relationship
Self-compassion, stillness, and change beneath the surface
A season for when pushing harder no longer helps
Winter is not a season of doing more. It is a season of changing how we relate — to ourselves, to others, and to the patients who bring us complexity, uncertainty, and stuckness.
In practice, Winter shows up when symptoms persist, consultations feel emotionally heavy, and progress seems slow despite best efforts. It’s often here that self-criticism creeps in, reactivity increases, and care begins to feel harder to sustain.
This season offers a different approach.
Not fixing. Not rescuing. Not retreating.
But learning how to create safety, compassion, and connection — the conditions in which real change can begin.
What Winter covers
Winter focuses on transformation through relationship, exploring how change happens when we shift the quality of how we relate.
The learning is organised around three core areas:
First, we explore our relationship with self — noticing inner narratives, self-talk, and habits of self-criticism, and developing self-compassion as a practical resource for sustainable practice.
Second, we look at our relationship with others, particularly how we can become caught in patterns of drama, fixing, or blame under pressure, and how to move instead towards presence, connection, and clear boundaries.
Third, we bring this into our relationship with patients, revisiting the Six-Step Framework in a “Winter mode” — focusing on safety, pacing, sense-making, and containment when change is slow and uncertainty is high.
Much of this work happens quietly. Winter helps you recognise and trust the changes that occur beneath the surface, even when nothing looks different yet.
What you’ll gain
By the end of Winter, you’ll feel more able to meet uncertainty without urgency, complexity without overwhelm, and stuckness without self-blame. You’ll have clearer language, steadier boundaries, and greater confidence in working relationally when progress is slow.
Most importantly, you’ll be supported to practise in ways that protect your capacity, not erode it.
Who is Winter for?
Winter is for health professionals who sense that something needs to change in how they practise — not through doing more, but through relating differently. It’s for those who recognise that meaningful change often happens quietly, beneath the surface, long before it becomes visible.
It’s designed for people working with complexity, uncertainty, and persistent symptoms, where clear answers aren’t always available and the emotional weight of the work can build over time. Many come feeling stretched, frustrated, or tired of carrying things alone, and looking for a kinder, more sustainable rhythm.
The programme is open to health professionals practising across the system and at all stages of their careers — whether you work inside the NHS or alongside it. No prior training in psychology or mind–body medicine is needed. Just curiosity, openness, and a willingness to pause.
How Winter works
Winter includes around one hour of core online content, released at the start of the season, alongside a curated set of optional resources for deeper exploration. You’ll also receive a reflective worksheet to help you make sense of the material in your own context and time.
Engagement is flexible. Nothing is compulsory. You choose what fits your life and workload.
A final word
Winter reminds us that awareness comes before acceptance, acceptance comes before change, and change often happens underground.
What you tend here may not show immediately.
That doesn’t mean nothing is happening.
Course Curriculum
Course Pricing
Winter - The Four Seasons of Learning
£40
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12 months’ access to 1 hour of core content along with a curated library of resources to support reflection and whole person care.
